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...hadn't led with my fantasy baseball joke, my reason for living would not have been shattered at an early age. So play wisely, my friends. Victory will grant you a joy matched by no other (I heard you, Shaggy). But defeat can make you feel like a little [expletive]. As Tina from Survivor said, let the games begin...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to Sea: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

Competing without two of its top players, Harvard (2-4) looked a little tired in the final singles matches against the Eagles. But there was certainly not a lack of effort in the defeat...

Author: By Kathryn J. Hodel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Downs Owls, Drop to Eagles | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Traffic is also likely to get an acting Oscar: Benicio Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor. Del Toro, who plays a conflicted Mexican cop who trails a case to California, will defeat Willem Dafoe, as a poignantly funny man-bat in Shadow of the Vampire, and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as the envious Roman aristocrat in Gladiator will get him bigger roles but not an Oscar, yet. Del Toro has three arguments in his favor. One: he's quite good in the film. Two: he's the hottie du jour, sleepily sensual and muy macho, with a touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...make the case against Bush's tax cuts, the former President's travails are instead drowning out their arguments. He's even dragging down Democratic fund raising, the one area in which he always came through. In Florida, where Democrats say they will need at least $12 million to defeat Governor Jeb Bush in 2002, a moneyman told TIME that normally dependable givers are citing Clinton's latest scandal, with its allegation that he traded pardons for campaign cash, when they refuse to put pen to check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can We Miss You If You Never Go Away? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...began plugging it on the Tonight Show, and last fall he became the show's first celebrity contestant. Chin-Killa, built and operated for Leno by NBC technicians, was fronted with a metal facsimile of Leno's face and used his legendary protruding chin as a battering ram to defeat Ginsu, a rival BattleBot wielding a nasty set of rotary saw blades. "I like anything that rolls and explodes," Leno says. "And it seems like a good outlet for kids--a chance to use technology and a youthful enthusiasm for mindless violence without anybody getting hurt." (Less obsessive kids will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battlebots: Attack of the Warrior Geeks | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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